The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-08-26

gland years ago? Who was next -
the throns? Who was higher than the
throne because he was counselor and adj
wiser? The descendant Of a jew. What
were we celebrating in all our churches as
wen as synagogue few years ago! The
one hundredth birthday anniversary Of
Montehore, the great Jewish philanthro'-
pist. Intolerance never yet put down any
thing.
But now, my friends, having shown
you the origin of bigotry or sectarianism,
and having shewn you the damage it
does, / want briefly to show you how we
are to war against this terrible evil, and I
think we ought to begin our war by real
izing our own weakness and our imper-
fections. five make so many mistakes in
the common affairs of life, is it not posi-
bic that we make mistakes in regard to
our religious affairs? Shall we take man
by the throat or by the collar because
he can not see religious truths just as we
do? In the light of eternity it viii be
found, think, there was something wrong
in all our creeds, and something right in
all our eTeeds. But since we may make
mistakes in regard to things of the world,
do not let US be egotistic and so pulled up
as to have an idea that we can not make
any mistake in regard to religious theories.
And then 1 think we will do a great deal
to overthrow sectarianism from our heart,
and the sectarianism from the world, by
chiefly charging upon those things in
which we agree rather than those on
which we differ.
Now, here is a great gospel platform. A
man comes up on this side of the platform
and says: 81 don't believe in
baby sprinkling." Shall shove him off?
Here is a man coming up on this
al "a and hR
81 don't believe in the perseverance
Of the saints" Shall I shove him off?
No. I will say: "Do you believe in the
Lord Jesus and your Saviour? Do you
trust in him for time and eternitY?' He
says, Eyes" 'Do you take Christ for time
and for eternity?" eyes" I say, "Come
on, brother; one in time and one in eter-
nitp; brother now, brother forever"
Blessed be God for a Gospel platform SO
large that all who receive Christ may
stand on it
I think we may overthrow the severe
sectarianism and bigotry in our hearts,
and in the church also, by realizing that
all the denominations of Christians have
yielded noble institutions and noble men.
There is nothing that so stirs my soul as
this thought. One denomination yielded a
Robert Hall and an Adoniram Judson;
another yielded a Latimer and a Melville;
y
blessed SummerfieId, while our own
denominations yielded John Knox and the
Alexanders-men of whom the world was
not worthy. Now, l say if we are honest
and fair-minded men, when we come up in
the presence of such churches and such de-
nominations, although they may be differ
emit from our own, we ought to admire them,
and we ought to love and honor them.
Churches which produce such men, s.and
h Oh,
nifcent martyrdom, ought to win our affec-
tion-at any rate our respect. So come on
ye AGO. 900 Episcopalians in this country,
and We 100000 Presbyterians, and ye $780,
600 Baptists, and ye 3,750,000 Methodists-
come on, shoulder to shoulder we will
march for the worlds conquest; for all
nations are to be saved, and God demands
that you and 1 help do it.. Forward, the
whole line.
Moreover, we may also overthrow the
feeling of severe sectarianism by joining
other denominations in Christian work. 1
like when the spring time comes and the
anniversary occasions begin and all denOm-
nations come upon the same platform.
That Overthrows sectarianism. In the
Young Mems Christian Association, in the
Bible Society, in the Tract Society, in the
Foreign Missionary Society, shoulder to
shoulder all denominations. Perhaps l
might more forcibly illustrate this truth
by calling your attention to an incident
which took place fourteen or fifteen years
ago. One Monday morning, at about
two O'Clock, while her nine hum
dred passengers were sound asleep
in her berths dreaming of home,
the steamer Atlantic crashed into Mars
Head. Five hundred souls in ten minutes
landed in eternity! Oh, what a scene!
AgOnized men and women running up and
down the gangways and clutching for the
rigging, and the plunge of the helpless
steamer and the clapping of the hands of
the merciless sea over the drowning and
the dead, threw two continents into terror.
But see this brave quartermaster pushing
out with the lifeline until he gets to the
rock; and see these fishermen gathering
up the shipwrecked, and taking them into
the cabins, and wrapping them in the fan
nels snug and warm; and see that minis
ter of the gospel, With three other men,
getting into a life-boat and pushing out for
the wreck, pulling away across the surf,
and pulling away until they saved one
more man, and then getting back with him
to the shore. Can these men ever forget
that night? And can they ever forget
their companionship in peril, companion
ship in struggle, cOmpaniOnsbip in awful
catastrophe and rescue? Never! Never
In whatever part of the earth they meet,
JleY VIII De Ifl6uuS Wn0u tu6y
mention the story OF that awful night
when the Atlantic struck Mars Head.
Well, my friends, our world has gone
into a worse shipwreck. Sin drove it on
the rocks. The old ship has lurched and
tossed in the tempests of 5000 years.
Out with the lifeline! 1 do lOt care
what denomination carries it. Out
with the Ine-boati I do not care
what denomination rows it. Side by SIDE
in the memory of common hardships, and
common trials, and common prayers, and
common tears, let US be brothers forever
We must be. We must be.
One army of the living God,
To whose commands we bow;
Part of the host have crossed the flood,
And part are crossing now.
And expect to see the day when all de-
nominations of Christians shall join hands
around the cross of Christ, and recite the
creed:
I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker
OF Heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ
and in the communion of saints, and in the life
everlasting.
May God inspire us all with the largest
hearted Christian charity.
a MYSTERIOUS PAUPER.
Death of Scholarly Gentleman in an
English Work House.
Our Canterbury correspondent writes
that person who for the past two years
has been an inmate of the Ethan Work